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Making use of the nuclear ban treaty
On July 7, 2017, the United Nations adopted a Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons following negotiations over 5 weeks during March, June and July.
122 countries voted in favour of the treaty, demonstrating the clear and unequivocal acceptance of the majority of UN members never to use, threaten to use, produce, possess, acquire, transfer, test or deploy nuclear weapons.
The treaty will be open for signature on September 20 and will enter-into-force once 50 States ratify.
UNFOLD ZERO promoted the negotiations, and was actively involved in them – submitting working papers, making interventions and organising side events. We are now active in the treaty implementation and follow-up.
Impact on the nuclear armed and allied States?
The nuclear-armed and allied States opposed the treaty and none are likely to join. As such they are not bound by its provisions, and will not be directly affected by it.
However, the new treaty could be used to impact on the policies and practices of the nuclear armed States and their allies in two key ways:
through national implementation measures that prohibit financing and transit of nuclear weapons;
by putting political pressure on these States to adopt nuclear risk reduction and disarmament measures, including through the Non-Proliferation Treaty process and at the 2018 UN High-Level Conference on Nuclear Disarmament.
National implementation: Prohibiting nuclear weapons investments
The nuclear prohibition treaty could impact on nuclear weapons policies if it results in divestment by States parties and others from corporations manufacturing nuclear weapons and their delivery systems.
These corporations (list compiled by Don't Bank on the Bomb) are a major driver of the nuclear arms race. They actively lobby their parliaments and governments to continue allocating the funds to nuclear weapons. And they support think tanks and other public initiatives to promote the 'need' for nuclear weapons maintenance, modernization and expansion.
Many of the countries supporting the nuclear prohibition treaty have public funds (such as national pension funds), and banks operating in their countries, that invest in these corporations.
The new treaty does not specifically prohibit such investments. However, States parties to the treaty agree not to 'assist, encourage or induce, in any way, anyone to engage in any activity prohibited to a State Party under this Treaty.' This can be interpreted as prohibiting investments in nuclear weapons corporations.
If a number of States Parties to the treaty, encouraged by their parliamentarians and civil society, decide to prohibit investments in nuclear weapons corporations as part of their national implementation measures, this could highlight the unethical corporate practice of manufacturing such weapons, damage the standing of such corporations and constrain their lobbying power.
UNFOLD ZERO and our partner organisations are therefore stepping up our Move the Nuclear Weapons Money campaign in order to dramatically increase the number of countries divesting from nuclear weapons corporations, focusing on those countries joining the nuclear prohibition treaty.
We are also supporting nuclear weapons divestment by cities, universities and religious institutions in nuclear-armed and allied countries, building on the example of the city of Cambridge MA (USA).
This divestment campaign is coupled with campaigns in the nuclear-armed States to drastically cut nuclear weapons budgets and re-direct these resources into economic, social and envirnomental need, such as prmooting renewable energy and protecting the climate.
For more information see Move the Nuclear Weapons Money: A handbook for civil society and legislators' or contact us at UNFOLD ZERO.
National implementation: prohibiting transit
One step that States parties to the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons could take that would impact directly on the policies and practices of the nuclear armed states is to prohibit the transit of nuclear weapons through their territorial waters and airspace.
The new treaty infers that allowing such transit by nuclear-armed states would be in violation of the treaty provision under which States parties to the treaty agree not to "assist, encourage or induce, in any way, anyone to engage in any activity prohibited to a State Party under this Treaty.' However, the treaty leaves it up to each State party on how they implement this provision.
Protestors block the nuclear submarine USS Haddo in Auckland harbour in 1979, prior to New Zealand banning transit of nuclear weapons through their waters and airspace in 1984.
Some of the countries in the UN negotiations on the treaty argued that a ban on transit would be too difficult to implement, verify and enforce, especially as the nuclear-armed States refuse to confirm or deny which ships and airplanes are carrying nuclear weapons.
However, UNFOLD ZERO partner organisations Aotearoa (New Zealand) Lawyers for Peace and PNND submitted a paper to the prohibition treaty negotiations reviewing the experience of New Zealand, a country which has adopted legislation prohibiting transit of nuclear weapons and has been successful in implementing this. We are therefore encouraging States Parties to the treaty to include a prohibition on transit in their national implementation measures.
The Ban Treaty and the 2018 UN High-Level Conference on Nuclear Disarmament
Nuclear armed and allied States have easily dismissed the Treaty on the prohibition of Nuclear Weapons as not relevant to them and which they can ignore. It is not so easy for them to ignore the 2018 UN High-Level Conference on Nuclear Disarmament (2018 UNHLC).
There is a general expectation (from media, parliaments, civil society and other governments) that governments will participate in UN high-level conferences at the highest level, i.e. by the President or Prime Minister, and that these conferences will deliver concrete outcomes.
As such, recent UN high-level conferences have been very successful, resulting in the adoption of the sustainable development goals, Paris agreement on climate change, NY declaration on refugees and migrants and the 14-point action plan to protect the oceans.
Consultation in Washington DC, hosted by Green Cross International, on the 2018 UN High-Level Conference on Nuclear Disarmament
Already the 56 member parliaments of the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly (which includes the parliaments of four nuclear armed and all the NATO countries) have called "on all participating OSCE States to participate in the 2018 UN international conference on nuclear disarmament at the highest level, to include parliamentarians in their delegations to the conference and to pursue the adoption of nuclear risk reduction, transparency and disarmament measures at the conference." (Tblisi Declaration, adopted July 5, 2016)
The ban treaty could be used to put additional pressure on the nuclear-armed and allied states to undertake such measures.
The 2018 UNHLC could also be an opportunity for non-nuclear countries to announce their ratification of the nuclear prohibition treaty. If 50 ratifications are achieved by the 2018 UNHLC, then this could be the occasion to announce its entry-into-force.
UNFOLD ZERO is coordinating civil society action for the 2018 UNHLC in cooperation with the Abolition 2000 Working Group on the 2018 UNHLC. Please contact us if you would like to be involved.
Global support is building for the UN High-Level Conference on Nuclear Disarmament

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Iván Jacinto Hurtado Angulo,  né le  à Esmeraldas (Équateur), est un footballeur international équatorien. Il joue au poste de défenseur avec l'équipe d'Équateur et le club de SD Quito. Il mesure 1,79 m pour 78 kg.

Surnommé Bam Bam, il est le joueur de football qui compte le plus d'apparitions en équipe d'Équateur (168 sélections). Il est également connu pour sa longévité en sélection nationale (22 ans et 143 jours, de 1992 à 2014).

Carrière

En club
 1988-1992 : Esmeraldas Petrolero -
 1992-1995 : CS Emelec -
 1995-1999 : Atlético Celaya -
 1999-2001 : Tigres UANL -
 2001-2001 : La Piedad -
 2001-2002 : Barcelona SC -
 2002-2003 : Real Murcie -
 2003-2004 : CF Pachuca -
 2004-2005 : Al Arabi Doha -
 2005-2006 : Atlético Nacional -
 2007 : Barcelona SC -
 2008 : Millonarios -
 2009-2010 : SD Quito -
 2011 : Barcelona SC -
 2012 :  -

En équipe nationale
Il a représenté l'Équateur pour la première fois à quatorze ans en faisant partie de l'équipe d'Équateur des moins de 16 ans. Il reçut sa première cape le  à l'occasion d'un match contre l'équipe du Guatemala. Il n'avait que 17 ans.

Il a disputé quatre tournois de qualification à la coupe du monde et six éditions de la Copa América. Il a participé à la coupe du monde 2002.

Hurtado participa également à la coupe du monde 2006 avec l'équipe d'Équateur.

Palmarès
 167 sélections en équipe nationale (5 buts)
 Champion de l'Équateur en 1993 et 1994 avec le CS Emelec

Notes et références

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Footballeur international équatorien
Joueur du Club Sport Emelec
Joueur des Tigres UANL
Joueur du Barcelona Sporting Club
Joueur du Real Murcie
Joueur du CF Pachuca
Joueur de l'Al-Ahli Doha
Joueur de l'Atlético Nacional
Joueur du Deportivo Quito
Joueur de l'Atlético Celaya
Joueur de l'Al-Arabi SC
Footballeur sélectionné plus de 100 fois en équipe nationale
Naissance en août 1974
Naissance à Esmeraldas (Équateur)

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By the way on January 18th Blog called "Talking to my self" by Mr. Blue, there was a big article about "trying to fit the Speed Master Wheel on Nissan Y30″ but heard nothing and see nothing after that. His Blog has picture with him pausing to fit on, but has no picture of car with this set of wheels on.
On his blog he says he will fit them on soon but has no report after that. Mean while that Nissan Y30 came to Area-1 with Speed Master Wheels on. So, I took some pictures and will put them up on be half of Mr. Blue. Now with wheels on Y30 Looks cool doesn't it? Mr. Yamada, the owner was nice enough to visit MOONEYES Area-1 shop again in week after that and purchased the option parts of New 5 ear center cap for wheels. As might have been expected, He knows what to do.


Rubicon Global, a technology company that provides waste, recycling and smart city solutions, has entered a partnership agreement with the Odakyu Group to bring its technology solutions to Japan.
Under the terms, transportation, retail and real estate company Odakyu will launch a pilot programme focused on supporting the Japanese waste and recycling industry towards a more integrated circular economy.
Odakyu, operating in Japan since 1948, said it is committed to working collaboratively with local Japanese haulers and industry leaders to identify and solve the local and global challenge of waste.
By partnering with Rubicon, Odakyu will utilise Rubicon's technology to help develop a sustainable ecosystem for all of its operating businesses.
"Rubicon Global is seen by Odakyu Group as an innovator in the category of waste and recycling, and will bring tremendous insight, strategy and technological expertise to help bring to life the circular economy in Japan," said Masashi Hisatomi, general manager of management strategy of Odakyu Electric Railway, Odakyu Group.
"We look forward to building this relationship with Rubicon in the months to come and see enormous opportunity within Odakyu Group to utilise the latest global technologies to help local stakeholders and to become a leading company of circular economy in Japan."
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'Doogie Howser, M.D.': Neil Patrick Harris Wasn't the Network's Favorite Casting
by Eduard Varnham | More Articles: Celebrity
When TV shows require a child star, casting can be tricky. It can be hard to predict how a child star will mature into their acting abilities, and many of them will struggle with the transition from childhood into adulthood as their role continues. Child stars are also often navigating a complex world of pressures, and many of them bring family baggage and anxieties onto the set. Finally, there's the simple fact that child stars are, well, children! Their talents are still being honed, and their experience is limited. Choosing the best child star for a series that puts them front and center can be a difficult task.
Neil Patrick Harris rose to fame as the child star of Doogie Howser, M.D., but it turns out that he wasn't the network's top choice for the role.
Cast of Doogie Howser, M.D. | Walt Disney Television via Getty Images
Neil Patrick Harris starred in 'Doogie Howser, M.D.'
Premiering in 1989, Doogie Howser, M.D. cataloged the life of a child prodigy who lives in two worlds. On the one hand, he has the normal childhood problems of navigating the teenage years: girlfriends, social pressures, and learning life's hard lessons. At the same time, he's a licensed physician navigating a challenging residency program and facing the very adult concerns that come along with such a life-and-death role. The show ran for four seasons before wrapping up in 1993.
Neil Patrick Harris, who was born in 1973, had already started his acting career prior to landing this important role. According to IMDb, his filmography includes the 1988 drama Clara's Heart in which he plays a rich but troubled teen who bonds with a Jamaican housekeeper played by Whoopi Goldberg. That same year, he also had a role in a TV movie titled Too Good to be True and a somewhat bizarre sci-fi comedy flick titled Purple People Eater. It was the starring role in Doogie Howser that defined Harris' rise to fame, however, and he would use that success to become one of Hollywood's A-list stars.
Neil Patrick Harris has gone on to a long career
MashReads Podcast: Escape reality with Neil Patrick Harris' new children's book 'The Magic Misfits' https://t.co/UczsSKoDmN pic.twitter.com/Ct8PSO5P8p
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Many child stars have trouble making the leap into acting as adults, but Harris handled it with skill. Once the series went off the air, Harris leaped into TV movies, playing substantial roles in Not Our Son (where he played a troubled arsonist) and Legacy of Sin: The William Coit Story (where he played the title character). The late 1990's saw Harris hopping through guest roles on TV shows and small parts in more mainstream films. In 1999, he landed a starring role in the short-lived comedy series Stark Raving Mad.
Just as it was a television show that made him a household name as a child, it was another TV series that gave him a substantial resurgence as an adult. In 2005, he took on the part of Barney Stinson in How I Met Your Mother. The show's popular nine-season run kept Harris busy until it went off the air — with a much-anticipated conclusion — in 2014. Since then, Harris has remained active with voice work, authoring a children's book, TV and film appearances, and multiple projects in the works.
ABC was not impressed with Neil Patrick Harris as Doogie Howser
A 'Doogie Howser' Reboot Was Just Announced and Fans Don't Like It
Clearly, Harris is a successful and talented actor who was able to bring those skills forward even as a young child, but the network executives at ABC were skeptical of that when Doogie Howser began. As Mental Floss reports, producer Steve Bochco brought the show to ABC, and the executives didn't want Harris in the role. They pressed forward with a pilot anyway, and executives once again voiced their dislike, but test audiences had a different opinion. Creator David E. Kelley explained, "It tests a high number, and it's put on the air because of how it tested—not because anybody at the network believed in it."
Replacing Harris wasn't on the table for Kelley and Bochco because it had been incredibly hard to cast the part. Kelley told Vulture that they had "searched forever" but struggled to find someone who could believably pull off being both a doctor and a normal kid. When they saw Harris, they were hooked: "In comes this kid, Neil Patrick Harris — we love him. He's got an intellect you can actually believe in as he's spewing up the medical jargon, and there's something about him — you care about him as a kid. So he's our Doogie Howser."
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← DO NOT FOOL YOURSELF, THE PROBLEM AT THE TEXAS BORDER IS NOT ONLY A TEXAS PROBLEM, IT IS A PROBLEM FOR THE ENTIRE United States. THE ENEMIES OF AMERICA ARE NOT STOPPING IN TEXAS, THEY ARE PROCEEDING TO EVERY MAJOR STATE IN THE NATION.
Perhaps the only useful result of the Afghan enterprise's clamorous collapse, at a time when so much else that our ruling class is doing also collapses of its own weight, is the widespread recognition that we are not seeing the results of discrete choices about foreign policy. We are experiencing the inexorable working out of the logic by which a whole class lives, moves, and has its being. →
This RINO swamp creature is in hiding after Tucker Carlson said these two words
Tucker Carlson is not somebody politicians want on their bad side.
He can destroy entire careers in minutes.
And this RINO swamp creature is in hiding after Tucker Carlson said these two words.
If there is one name that sends a shiver down the spines of corrupt politicians in Washington, D.C. it's Tucker Carlson.
While most of the major media figures are more than willing to cover for the misbehavior of corrupt politicians, often in exchange for favors or access, Carlson will call out anybody who deserves it.
And he did just that with "Republican" Senator Lindsey Graham.
Graham will do or say pretty much anything that will help him personally.
He was the most vocal anti-Trump Republican before he tried to reinvent himself as the most vocal pro-Trump supporter in the Senate, and now he is trying to walk all that back.
And now he is trying to capitalize politically off the Afghanistan debacle.
But as Tucker Carlson points out, Graham is directly responsible for the failures in Afghanistan.
"The main reason Americans were so shocked by the fall of Kabul last week is that for years, people in Washington have been lying to them about it and telling them everything in Afghanistan is just fine," Carlson began his point. "It's improving, forever improving. Our sacrifice is well worth it. Our strategy is successful. Just keep sending us money and young soldiers, we will make the world safe for America."
That's when he moved on to hit Graham directly, stating, "For decades that's what they've told us. One of the main mouthpieces for these lies has been Senator Lindsey Graham of South Carolina. Graham identifies as a Republican, but his views in real life are indistinguishable from say Tony Blinken's or Mark Milley's."
"Graham's real constituents are in permanent Washington, not in South Carolina," he concluded.
Carlson went on to play three clips of Graham that prove his responsibility for the situation in Afghanistan.
The most damning one came from 13 years ago, where Graham heaped praise at Barack Obama for increasing troop presence in Afghanistan.
"When it comes to Afghanistan, I am completely supportive of [Obama's] decision to send 35,000 troops into Afghanistan. They are needed," Graham said. "I would like every American to know that not only are the troops needed, unfortunately, casualties are likely to increase, but we have a game plan in Afghanistan that I think justifies the expenditures of blood and treasure that's about to come."
Do you think Republicans should vote Lindsey Graham out of office?


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Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba could reportedly acquire a stake in Micromax, one of India's biggest smartphone makers.
New York-traded Alibaba is looking at a "significant stake" in the Indian smartphone maker but the size of the deal is not clear.
Negotiations between the two sides are underway, CNBC reported.
Pursued by the news channel, both Alibaba and Micromax refused to comment.
Micromax commands an 18% share of India's smartphone market, according to market research firm IDC, and has built its user base from the sale of high-spec budget devices.
A stake in Micromax will give Alibaba access to India's fast growing smartphone market.
Alibaba has a homegrown operating system (OS) known as YunOS (also known as Aliyun OS), which promotes a variety of the company's online services over those of Google or other rivals.
The Chinese firm is looking to grow YunOS in order to push its e-commerce services and an investment in Micromax could see Alibaba install its OS on Micromax devices, and tap India's e-commerce market thereby.
Alibaba has been pushing its mobile operating system in recent months.
In April, the tech giant partnered with state-backed China Telecom to sell budget smartphones in the nation's smaller cities and rural areas, in a further bid to boost its presence in unchartered territory.
In February, Alibaba injected $590m into a tiny Chinese smartphone player called Meizu, which accounts for less than 2% of China's smartphone market.
Why has Alibaba invested $590m in a smartphone company no one has heard of?


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Misunderstanding Metadata
Metadata extraction is a daily routine for archivists engaged in digital preservation. While at times this activity appears as a rigid structure with a set of rules and logic, it is oftentimes an imprecise process that requires a level of informed interpretation on the user end. Semantics play a huge role in the information exchange between developers and downstream archival communities.
ExifTool and MediaInfo are two of the most common metadata extraction tools used by archival communities at large. Both tools have been in operation for just over a decade (MediaInfo is in its twelfth year of production, ExifTool in its eleventh), and both are integrated in the back end of countless utilities and libraries including Invisor (MediaInfo), Zencoder (MediaInfo), and MDQC (ExifTool and MediaInfo).
Technical metadata is culled from a variety of sources in audiovisual files – raw stream information, "atoms" in Quicktime files, "chucks" in WAV files, and "packets" in MPEG transport streams to name a few. Metadata extraction tools pull values from these sources and apply strings and human-readable labels in a variety of readouts. A good example of this is a file's time scale (e.g. 2997/100Hz), which is pulled from Quicktime's 'mvhd' (Movie Header) atom. MediaInfo, for example, will serve this value in its main extraction table in the context of the container codec (eg., Video_Frame_Rate).
Without a properly defined unit of measurement, some values can appear divergent when compared across different sets of tools. A recent test sample came up where a file's bit-depth per component value differed between both MediaInfo and ExifTool. Using ExifTool on a sample DV video file, ExifTool displays a bit depth value of 24:
This value differs in comparison to Mediainfo's extraction of 8 bits, the "correct" value:
Why the discrepancy, if the information appears to come from a single source? The issue is each tool's individual definition of bit-depth. A bits-per-pixel unit of measurement (eg., 24 bits) is largely preferred by the still image community (a core user group of ExifTool), while the moving image community prefers a bits-per-component value (eg., 8-bit). Since each tool may cater to a specific archival community, such a unit of measurement needs to be identified by the end user early on in order to put the correct values to use.
To take another example of misidentification on the user end, here are values extracted from a Quicktime-wrapped v210 10-bit uncompressed file, used commonly as a preservation master format for analog video reformatting:
The Format profile and container ID check out, but what's with the MPEG-4 value listed as the file's Format? Well, Quicktime served as the basis for the MPEG-4 format in 1998, and as it became an industry standard it retained the latter's ISO label. Nowadays archivists associate the MPEG-4 descriptor largely with MPEG-4 Part 10/AVC, otherwise known as H.264. Thus the current usage of MPEG-4 speaks of something else entirely, giving the impression of a strange bedfellow when found in the header of an uncompressed file.
A similar but slightly more obscure example is the v210 codec hint, "AJA Video Systems Xena." Since the v210 codec was originally used by AJA Video Systems (specifically in their Xena analog-to-digital converter), this information has retained in proximity to the codec ID for legacy purposes. A quick glance of this value and one could assume that this relates to the analog-to-digital converter used in the creation of the file itself (AJA converter boxes are still widely in operation). This is not the case. (Note: If one needed such information, it could be derived by the adjacent "encoding library" metadata value).
To speculate as to where certain values are coming from, a more verbose readout of the metadata trace is available with Exiftool using the command exiftool -v5. Here, one could parse through the individual sources (in this case, Quicktime atoms):
A similar verbose readout can be retreived using Mediainfo's command mediainfo --Inform="Details;1":
Tools will oftentimes prioritize metadata coming from a file's raw stream in their main extraction tables, using container information as a fallback. The verbose trace shows both the bit stream and container metadata, for better or for worse. One interesting and potentially problematic source of metadata is Quicktime's Sample Description ('stsd') atom, seen above in the ExifTool and MediaInfo traces. The 'stsd' atom consists of what what values could potentially be in a given file, not what they actually are. The sample description atom contains what its name implies, a table of sample descriptions. Media may have one or more sample descriptions, depending on the number of different encoding schemes used and on the number of files used to store the data.
How does one determine the faithfulness of extracted metadata? Compare the values across tools, and use verbose readouts to check the source atoms, chunks and packets for possible indicators. Determine units of measurement before the fact and make sure that values aren't a misapprehension of legacy information. And it's always helpful to check out the forums for both tools to report bugs and submit feature requests. ExifTool's forum is here, MediaInfo's forum is here.
Thanks to Dave Rice and Jerome Martinez for their comments.


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Ah well in our demented UK heads, we see you as being stuck in your 4 year cycles, having no democratic way to have a new election, if you need one now.
And what about that win an election in November, presidents don't change till January. The people have spoken, and you've been kicked to the kerb. How democratic is that that you get to hang on for three more months? ;)
Swings and roundabouts. ;)
And what about that win an election in November, presidents don't change till January
True, but our country and bureaucracy are five times the size of yours, and it takes a while to find enough qualified tax-cheats to fill the vacancies. ;)
several hours later, im still shocked that the bastion of capitalism has a shortage of tax cheats ;)
by ceebs (ceebs (at) eurotrib (dot) com) on Sat Jun 6th, 2009 at 08:37:06 AM EST
Bastion of capitalism? Wasn't one of the big European papers going on about us becoming commies the other day?
by Drew J Jones (pedobear@pennstatefootball.com) on Sun Jun 7th, 2009 at 09:58:59 AM EST
Oh I don't know - something to do with time to put together a cabinet, agenda, arrange for the move, enroll your kids in their new school, celebrate the holidays.
Russia has a lag time too. Must be a fascist thing...
well you know you'd have thought that an agenda would have been arranged ahead of time.....
No, I don't think so. Unless you mean agenda like, "I am pro-healtchare." Yes, those things are laid out ahead of an election. By agenda, I mean, figuring out everything that needs to be done, making a strategy for implementing it, and creating a timetable. And a more or less daily schedule for your first 100 days. It's a very good time to put together your team, and then together with your team, make all the decisions you can before your are thrust into the job and have reality and the media distracting you every waking moment of your day.
Preparation is a huge part of any task.
So how does just about every other democracy manage?
I was unaware until now it was rare. The only two countries I really pay close attention to both do it.
Is every other democracy managing? Screw that, there are no democracies. Is Britain managing? Not according to this diary. Are presidents of all other countries faced with the same tasks that the president of America is? I don't think so. We're a big country, and we have big plans. :)
Plus you have Monarchs for continuity. We have to transition. It's like, you are in a marriage for life, but replace your lovers. We go through a divorce and re-marriage every 4-8 years. We want to make it as painless as possible.
Plus you have Monarchs for continuity.
True, but we do have David Broder, and between our two countries, I think the Brits clearly got the better deal. And at least she comes with the entertaining husband.
We go through a divorce and re-marriage every 4-8 years. We want to make it as painless as possible.
Yes. We hated the last ex so much that, seven years after 9/11, we said, "Hey, you know what would be good? A black guy with a Muslim name."
Party officials start working on all that stuff in advance. Runs the risk of actual plans being discussed in the elections though.
If you were a "Real DemocracyTM" you'd have thought that would be a necessity.
I don't think the party sets the agenda for the President in the US. I think it is the other way around. So it would be not only risky, but impractical.
The people has spoken and the electors been elected. They still need to ride to Washington and there elect a president. Takes time, you know.


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Nasa engineers yesterday completed the final unfolding of the huge primary mirror of the agency's James Webb space telescope. The manoeuvre was the final step of the $10bn observatory's two-week deployment phase that began with its launch on Christmas Day.
The telescope, which has already travelled more than 600,000 miles across space, is the largest, most powerful space telescope ever built and had to be folded up tightly, so it would fit inside its Ariane 5 launch rocket.
Since then, engineers have been directing the slow unfolding, piece by piece, of the observatory as it heads on its voyage to a gravitationally stable point a million miles from the Earth. Its tennis-court size sun shield – which will keep its delicate instruments cold – have already been deployed as well its secondary mirror.
Last week, Nasa began the final manoeuvres involved in deploying the Webb's main mirror, which will collect light from the furthest depths of the universe and which is made up of 18 gold-coated segments: a central section plus two three-segment side panels. In a sequence of delicate moves, the first panel was successfully deployed on Friday, a process that took five-and-a-half hours.
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Q: Has anyone seen Squish that you must re-record after moving? I'm using a combination of Python and Squish for Qt to write tests on a Qt GUI, but I have noticed when I copy and paste tests from a suite I have and move them to another suite or computer with Squish the file will run, but when it runs anytime it sees an object name it does not recognize it and throws an exception. Most of the time I use the picker tool to go get the object name and place it where the old object name was and it works (I might add that the object names haven't changed I'm literally copying and pasting a string over THE SAME EXACT string). I must be doing something wrong. Has anyone seen this or have a way of resolving the issue so I don't have to re-record?

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... but I have noticed when I copy and paste tests from a suite
  I have and move them to another suite or computer with Squish the file
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For your test script, Squish creates this suite folder you mention.
Inside this folder, you also have besides the test.py file, a object.map file (in which squish stores all the objects that you use inside the test).
Also, besides those 2 files you have a suite.conf file.
Instead of copy/paste your test script file, you could move the suite folder on the other computer, and there open it in SquishIDE. Or along with the test script, copy also the object.map file.

A: @EugenG is right, the object map contains the mapping from symbolic name (:OK_Button) to real name ({type='Button' text='OK'}) and thus you need to copy the respective entries to the object map of the new test suite, or simply "teach" them in the fly with Squish's Object Name Found handling while executing the test script. To speed this up, Squish version 6.4+ will support reducing the default timeout for waitForObject() & co via testSettings.waitForObjectTimeout.
And @EugenG is also right about the possibility to share an object map between test suites.

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Rod Guy: I see three major technology trends emerging in law enforcement: big data, analytics and the cloud. These trends are driving the adoption of new solutions, particularly in the areas of digital investigations and evidence management.
Police departments face a "big data" problem. Crime solving in the 21st century hinges on digital evidence. But there's so much data coming from so many silos that it's becoming increasingly difficult for investigators to ingest it, correlate it and absorb the relevant facts of a case.
Detectives often have to log on to a dozen systems and manually search for connections in cases which wastes time and increases the likelihood that crucial evidence will be missed. Departments also lack scalable solutions for crowdsourcing evidence. In a major investigation, a server can quickly crash under the weight of large volumes of files. Investigators also struggle putting disjointed evidence into context.
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Dan Law: The most exciting technologies law enforcement could be using by 2022 will be built on machine learning and artificial intelligence. Data analytics and machine learning allow us to find patterns in data, so we can optimize resources or prescribe strategies to reduce crime.
Artificial intelligence is an advanced type of machine learning in which computer systems perform tasks that normally require human intelligence, such as visual perception and natural language understanding.
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Why do you think this technology will be used in law enforcement?
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Law: Everything in the world is becoming smart – from the lampposts in our cities to the cars we drive. All of these smart objects are capturing information, making more data available than ever before.
Particularly for law enforcement, data is coming from many sources: surveillance cameras, records management systems, 911 calls and body-worn cameras. Capturing, managing and storing data is a challenge today.
It's even more difficult to look at all of that data and derive something meaningful from it. That's where data analytics and artificial intelligence come in.
Guy: This technology will see wide-scale adoption because the volume and variety of digital evidence is growing every day, while the manual methods investigators use to collect, analyze and share it simply haven't kept pace. Police departments need better tools so they can leverage all of the available digital evidence to improve case solvability and reduce crime rates.
Consider how new digital investigation and evidence-management technology will revolutionize how investigators work. In addition to collapsing digital silos into a single log on, the technology can search across all connected systems and recommend relevant evidence.
Advanced content analytics will make all structured and unstructured data sources searchable – including audio recordings, databases, narratives from CAD comments, incident reports, FI cards, reports, documents and more – so investigators can uncover connections, generate new leads and solve cases faster.
How will this technology benefit law enforcement operations?
Law: One example is a demonstration we showed during Amazon Web Services' annual Re:Invent conference, [that] was constructed around a missing person scenario.
To provide a more efficient alternative to a traditional "be on the lookout" call, we built AI software that can detect faces in the real-time video feed of our combination body-worn camera and radio speaker microphone. This allows the device to serve as a sensor that is always looking for a missing person.
The software passes those faces onto a secure AI service, which checks the face against a missing persons database. All of this happens in real time as an officer is patrolling an area. If an officer's camera picks up a face that is in the missing persons database, it triggers a voice alert.
Joyce: Whether it's an ongoing tactical situation, the processing of a crime scene, a natural disaster, to name just a few, drones can provide a significant advantage.
Imagine a camera-equipped drone surveillance of a vehicle in a police chase of a violent felon. The risk to police and public lives is greatly reduced, the costs lowered tremendously and evidence can be collected in the form of video.
Guy: First, law enforcement agencies can save a significant amount of time and money by automating their digital investigations. In addition to streamlining their collection and analysis of digital evidence, investigators no longer need to physically copy evidence onto media and hand deliver it to prosecutors.
But make no mistake – by using technology to tame the rising tide of big data, police departments will not only save time and taxpayer dollars, they'll be able to get more criminals off the streets. Because when investigators spend less time on manual tasks, they can concentrate on solving cases.
Technology can also go a long way toward improving case solvability. Thanks to content analytics, investigators will be able to uncover insights, connections and leads that could otherwise remain obscured.
Passanante: First responders and officers alike seem to agree that the move to a wireless broadband is necessary, particularly during national disasters. When a major event happens, everyone begins calling and texting to make sure loved ones are safe, but that places a tremendous burden on networks.
Now that most people own a mobile phone, it creates an enormous amount of traffic that impacts first responders by limiting or preventing their ability to place calls for help or receive life-saving data. As agencies move to the new private wireless broadband, they will be able to stay connected at all times, especially in times of disaster.
What policy issues (privacy or legislation) should law enforcement agencies consider with this emerging technology?
Guy: Like the other law enforcement solutions, this new technology is governed by existing CJIS security policy requirements. CJIS security policy was established to put minimum security requirements in place to protect and secure FBI criminal justice information.
All applications and services used by criminal justice agencies to transmit, process or store CJI, including cloud services, must comply with the CJIS security policy. A law enforcement agency deploying new technology should feel comfortable that the companies providing the cloud service/application have real-world knowledge of CJIS security policy compliance and can demonstrate their readiness to comply with the policy.
Passanante: With the rollout of FirstNet, agencies need to carefully consider the mobile technology they are deploying to meet privacy and security requirements. FirstNet will be built with layers of security to protect data and defend against cyber threats, and agencies will need to evaluate mobile hardware that meet security protocols.
Security policies will be developed alongside the Department of Homeland Security and the Department of Defense to meet National Institute of Standards and Technology requirements, which means your agency's mobile solution must be compliant and must have the functionality to meet those requirements.
Research vendors carefully when selecting your mobile technology to ensure your devices have the necessary security capabilities.
Joyce: Currently the FAA must approve drone usage. But in lieu of future legislation, public safety agencies must adopt strong policies and strictly enforce their usage to conform to those policies. Illegal or inappropriate surveillance will not go over well in the United States.
What I hope for is an open dialogue between the privacy advocates and the entities that see the need for drone deployments where facts and good intentions toward the public's safety is weighed against an infringement of an individual's rights and an appropriate balance is decided on. That conversation must take place because an emotional discussion, without facts, weighted in privacy is not good for anyone.
Law: As with any technology, new capabilities can raise questions about policy and privacy. In terms of artificial intelligence specifically, AI has the power to assess information so quickly that storing everything isn't always necessary.
In our facial recognition demo, at no point is a face stored on disk, and at no time is a face accessible by a human unless there is a match in the missing persons database. All unmatched faces are deleted without a trace.
How can agencies prepare for implementation of this future solution?
Passanante: As the nation prepares to move toward full integration of FirstNet, invest in mobile hardware now that is purpose-built with MIL-SPEC durability and reliability to ensure your technology works when it matters most. While FirstNet will provide first responders with tremendous benefits on the job, its full potential will not be realized unless mobile technology can keep up with the demands of the job.
Begin evaluating mobile solutions now so your department will have reliable technology for years to come.
Law: Artificial intelligence requires computing power – and lots of it. Doing facial recognition on body-worn cameras, for example, is better suited to cloud computing, rather than depending on proprietary on-premise hardware.
To prepare for a future when law enforcement agencies have AI as part of their workflows, I'd encourage them to carefully consider their future computing needs, which will likely continue to grow as technology continues to advance and as even more data is created.
Guy: Agencies should start by doing a self-assessment of how they conduct investigations so they can identify areas for improvement. By reviewing current processes, agencies will be better prepared to assess how new digital investigation and evidence management technology will help.
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Also, a heavy concentration of legal and constitutional law review, FAA regulations, a close monitoring of pending legislation and an outreach to the privacy-advocacy groups to share ideas, perspectives and concerns from both sides should be done now, ahead of full deployments. That will save a massive amount of heartburn later.
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Actress Suchitra Pillai will walk into courtroom drama TV series "Adaalat" as a lawyer and she says playing the role of a legal entity instills a "sense of power" in her.
The actress will be donning the coat of a public prosecutor for the second time for the show, which revolves around a lawyer, named KD Pathak, who solves twisted cases with ease.
"I am glad to be a part of the show once again. I am totally comfortable with the role and I embrace the fact that you can have a voice of your own. It gives me a sense of power which is something that I like. For me, working as a public prosecutor this time was much easier as it's my second time, but your first time is always memorable," Suchitra said in a statement.
Actor Ronit Roy slips into the role of KD Pathak for the Sony Entertainment Television show with perfection, which has impressed Suchitra.
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"As always, it's been fabulous working with Ronit. He definitely is a dedicated and brilliant actor who knows his work thoroughly. Throughout the shoot he has helped me by giving me tips and making things easier and comfortable for me. I surely look forward to working with him in the future," she added.
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The original Blanchardstown Shopping Centre was completed by Sisk in 1997.
Included were a multiplex Cinema and parking for 2,400 cars.The Centre is occupied by leading national and UK retailers.
included an interconnecting feature wall between old and new.
to Penney's (Primark) at levels 2 & 3, plus an additional two storeys of car parking over the existing car park.


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Zhang Jingjing, environmental litigator
Pollution lawsuits are a new concept in China, where a public-interest lawyer faces many challenges in her quest to educate people about their rights. Tian Lei reports.
Tian Lei
In a room at a Guangzhou University, environmental lawyer Zhang Jingjing was expounding her views on green issues when a reporter interrupted by saying, "Your ideas are too naive!" The reporter, younger than Zhang, does not believe that legal and media oversight can bring a halt to China's numerous environmental problems.
Zhang leapt to her feet and accused the reporter of a lack of faith in her profession. Zhang is convinced that her work can bring about ongoing improvements in China's environment.
She is a lawyer working for the Centre for Legal Assistance of Pollution Victims (CLAPV) at the China University of Political Science and Law. Three decades of economic boom have created countless victims of pollution and there are very few organisations able to provide legal assistance. CLAPV is the only one doing so for no fee.
Zhang has worked at the centre for almost a decade now, in an old dormitory building already set for demolition. She is now head of the litigation department, yet she relies on donations from the United States to cover her salary. This is embarrassing for her, but she currently has no choice.
In April 2008, I accompanied Zhang on a visit to a mountain village in the north of Guangdong in southern China. It was her fourth time there, where she was attempting to persuade residents to sue the state-owned mining company, which has for over half a century piled up waste around wells and fields for over half a century. Several of the villages in the area are known for having high rates of cancer caused by the pollution. But the local people could not make the decision to sue. They had become used to annual rounds of protests at the mine and petitioning the government, all in exchange for a little compensation.
"You will not need to spend a cent," Zhang told them. "I will find someone to do medical checks and test the soil, and I would not charge you anything." Sitting in the run-down village committee building, Zhang restates her case yet again. The village head is convinced, but a number of the villagers are not sure. If they lose the case, they would not even have grounds to keep on complaining to the government. They ask if Zhang can guarantee a large lump sum of compensation – but she cannot.
Zhang's assistant was to accompany her, but due to a lack of funds the girl was forced to make the 200-kilometre trip from Beijing to the village by train and arrived three days late. With business not going smoothly, her assistant loses all hope. A reporter tries to cheer her up, saying that her boss is doing good work for the country, but Zhang and her assistant respond only with bitter smiles.
Before going to university, Zhang grew up in a small chemical industry town in Sichuan. Her childhood memories are of crimson smoke puffing out of chimneys and waste water of all colours running through the gutters. Her parents worked in the surrounding plants. Many years later, while investigating pollution, she saw all these scenes again around the country.
In Chi Feng, Inner Mongolia, a copper smelting plant polluted the pear orchards and pastures of local herders. In Cangzhou, Hebei, a dairy firm polluted farmers' orchards. In Bozhou, Anhui, a chemical plant polluted fields by the Wo River. In Beijing, residents of the Baiwang Jiayuan area were put at risk by high-voltage power lines. And then you have the villagers of Shaoguan in Guangdong, and the carcinogens the mine waste has brought them. These are the kinds of cases Zhang Jingjing has been dealing with for the last decade.
"Actually, we have not had many genuine legal victories," she says. But for her, the difficulties in litigation are not the main thing. Regardless, more and more victims of pollution are coming to her for help. Even the residents of big cities such as Beijing, Shanghai and Guangzhou are relying more often on the law to address grievances. Their awareness of contracts and rights and their ability to organise may provide a glimpse of the future.
It is actually the victims themselves who are hardest to deal with. "In China, the worst victims of pollution are rural residents," she says, "and when they ask a lawyer for help, they only have one thing in mind: compensation." When they first make contact, they put all their hopes in the lawyer, believing whatever they are told. But as complex legal cases grind on and compensation does not match the hoped-for amounts, Zhang becomes the object of complaints and blame.
"At first I got a sense of moral contentment from being able to change people's fate, people who rely on me unconditionally," Zhang says. "But when people complain and blame you for what happened, that all disappears." It seems these experiences might wear away her enthusiasm to help.
And after a win, there are even bigger problems. Although there is no charge to bring the case to court, CLAPV does sign agreements with plaintiffs. The agreements say that in the event of a win, CLAPV will receive a modest service fee in order to recover some of the expenses involved. But often the victims end contact when a case is won, and fail to pay up.
In March 2001, CLAPV helped victims of reservoir pollution in Jiangsu province win compensation of five million yuan (US$735,000) for 97 households after a three-year battle in the courts. But Zhang and her colleagues still have not received their service fee and have now been forced to sue their former clients.
It was only after CLAPV won regular funding from the Ford Foundation that it was able to undertake actual litigation work, and Zhang became a full-time lawyer.
This year Zhang was selected to participate in Yale's World Fellows programme, which will allow her to go to Yale University in the United States as a visiting scholar. Yale described Zhang this way: "Committed to justice and strengthening the rule of law, Jingjing Zhang is one of China's leading public-interest lawyers. An outspoken environmental advocate, she represents pollution victims in litigation cases and promotes public participation by helping communities organise public hearings on environmental rights and licensing processes."
She has represented plaintiffs in many landmark environmental cases, including China's first successful environmental joint action case against a chemical firm releasing toxins in Fujian.
Zhang says that the foundations of CLAPV are shaky; all its operations rely on stable funding from overseas foundations. Although every year the centre trains a number of lawyers in handling environmental litigation, only ten are currently active in the field. Zhang sees the training of a cohort of environmental lawyers as the most pressing issue.
She hopes that CLAPV can become a platform, providing a stable income for idealistic law students and promoting professionalism among China's public interest lawyers. "You cannot ask everyone to be an idealist," she says.
Tian Lei, at age 26, is Southern Window's youngest reporter. She joined the magazine in 2007.
Condensed with permission from Southern Window
Homepage photo by ethnocentrics
Tian Lei, reporter for Southern Window.
Facing up to "invisible pollution"
Fighting poverty and saving the environment
Heroes of the environment: who are yours?


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Q: How to specify custom name for a Resource Controller I have a Laravel 9 project and I have added this resource route:
Route::resource('users', UsersController::class);

So it basically takes the uri which is users and make the other route names like this:
users.index, users.create, users.store, etc
Now I need to put the resource in a route group with prefix of users, so the resource will be looked like this:
Route::prefix('users')->group(function () {
   Route::resource('/', UsersController::class);
});

Now because the uri for the resource route is empty, it can not add route names.
So I wonder how can I apply a custom name for the resource route in this situation.
I tried adding Route::resource('/', UsersController::class)->name('users'); but this is wrong!
What is the proper way of applying custom route name for a resource route?

A: You can use the 'as' method on the 'Route::resource' method to assign a custom name to each of the resource routes:
Route::prefix('users')->group(function () {
  Route::resource('/', UsersController::class)->as('users');
});

Now, the generated route names will be prefixed with 'users', for example: 'users.index', 'users.create', 'users.store', etc.
You can also assign different names to each individual action of the resource by passing an array of names as the argument to the 'as' method:
Route::prefix('users')->group(function () {
   Route::resource('/', UsersController::class)->as([
        'index' => 'users.index',
        'create' => 'users.create',
        'store' => 'users.store',
        ...
   ]);
});


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Grazhdanin (, lit. The Citizen) was a Russian conservative political and literary magazine published in Petersburg in 1872–1914 (with a one-year interval in 1880–1881). The magazine was founded by Prince Vladimir Meshchersky. It came out weekly or two times a week, and daily in 1887–1914. Grazhdanin exerted some influence on policies of the Russian government. It adhered to principals of monarchism and opposed liberal press and revolutionary movements. Fyodor Dostoyevsky was the magazine's chief editor from the early 1873 to April 1874. Throughout this magazine's existence, people like Konstantin Pobedonostsev, Nikolay Strakhov, Aleksey Pisemsky, Nikolai Leskov, Fyodor Tyutchev, Apollon Maykov, Yakov Polonsky, Aleksey Apukhtin, Vasily Nemirovich-Danchenko and others published their works on its pages.

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BEREA, Ohio >> There were plenty of signs pointing to Robert Griffin III returning to a starting quarterback slot for the first time since 2014. Browns coach Hue Jackson made it official Monday.
Griffin beat out Josh McCown for the starting job, leaving the 37-year-old's future with the Browns in doubt.
Griffin signed a two-year, $15 million free agent contract in March and has taken the majority of first-team reps during the Browns' organized team activities and training camp.
"He has gained the respect from his teammates, the coaching staff and the entire organization that is necessary for him to lead our offense and really the entire team," Jackson said.
The fifth-year quarterback led Cleveland's first-team offense in both weekend scrimmages at the team's training facility in Berea, Ohio. On Friday, Griffin completed three long passes to rookie Corey Coleman, including a deep touchdown toss that impressed veteran cornerback Tramon Williams.
And in Saturday's no-pads scrimmage at Ohio Stadium in Columbus, the Baylor product tossed two touchdown passes to receiver Terrelle Pryor.
Though he may not be long for Cleveland, McCown was on the receiving end of praise from Jackson.
McCown, who started eight games for Cleveland in 2015 before breaking his collarbone, is reportedly a top trade target for the Dallas Cowboys, who are in need of a replacement backup quarterback after Kellen Moore broke his right ankle last week.
Griffin, 26, has the starting job for the first time since 2014, when he played for the Redskins. He did not take a snap for the Washington in 2015 and was released March 7.


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